I TYPED THIS ON MY iPAD AND NOW THE SPACING IS OFF, SORRY.
Through any art form, a protagonist is necessary, a leading character of any kind,
to guide you or take you through the story that the artist is presenting. When I say any
art form, I mean "any" art form. Think of classical music, just orchestrated, no opera, just
instruments, there is a protagonist. Music has a key it is written in, certain notes and
chords belong to that key and it follows a structure. So in a way the key signature is
taking you along with whatever story the music is telling, even if some guy wrote it like
"hey this sounds cool!", and did not actually consider a key and just played random
notes. Not to get into theory, but there would still be a key that his random notes still
sound best in, or belong to. So the key signature, which contains the notes which are
considered correct to play, is like the world the key, our protagonist, belongs to. There
are preset notes in this key, rules to follow, years of developed theory that make it the
way it works. Of course a composer can that the key and change and break the rules as
he or she pleases, but there will always be the set boundaries whether the composer
knows it or not. If you really wanted to test that any art has a protagonist, canvas,
painted fully with black paint by someone who thinks they are modern or revolutionary
and people pay so much to see what you could make for 5$, the protagonist is the black
paint. Anyways, that was a big long metaphor to describe that, a character can take
many different paths and can be interpreted in many different ways. But while the
character has many different paths that they could take, the world has still already been
formed for them. Through past knowledge, and through what the audience accepts for
the most part. If you take like Superman for example, he can sort of do whatever he
wants, he cannot rewrite history though, and he cannot reshape the Earth, well maybe
he can, I do not follow the comics much. But he still has a weakness, if not there would
be no point if the world did not come up with challenges. There is a Twilight Zone
episode where this man believes he is in heaven after he starts getting everything that
he could ever want, once realizing there was nothing unexpected left in his existence,
he got very bored only to realize he was never in heaven, but rather the other place.
The point of the story is characters who get around or are in the world they have been
created for, and that is their experience, not just a world that they have created
themselves.
Sasha: some interesting examples, but can you choose one and focus on developing it? I also like you opening analogy/metaphor, but can you focus this example?
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